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Commune of Fontainebleau |
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| Château de Fontainebleau in the town centre | ||
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Seine-et-Marne (sous-préfecture) |
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| Arrondissement | Fontainebleau | |
| Canton | Fontainebleau (chief town) |
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| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Fontainebleau-Avon | |
| Mayor | Frédéric Valletoux (2008-2014) |
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| Elevation | 42–150 (avg. The Palace of Fontainebleau, located 345 miles from the centre of Paris, is one of the largest French royal Châteaux The palace as it is today is the work of many A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Île-de-France ( pronounced /il d̪ə fʁɑ̃s/ literally "Island of France" is one of the twenty-six administrative regions of France. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Seine-et-Marne is a French department, named after the Seine and Marne rivers and located in the Île-de-France region Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Fontainebleau is an arrondissement of France located in the Seine-et-Marne département, in the Île-de-France The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The canton of Fontainebleau is a French Administrative division, located in the Arrondissement of Fontainebleau, in the Seine-et-Marne The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. The Communauté de communes de Fontainebleau-Avon is a Communauté de communes in the Seine-et-Marne département and in the A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 69 m) |
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| Land area¹ | 172. 05 km² | |
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15,942 | |
| - Density | 93/km² (1999) | |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 77186/ 77300 | |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open | ||
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E | ||
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Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. The aire urbaine is an INSEE (the national statistics office of France statistical region comprising a Couronne périurbaine commuter belt around a contiguous Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. It is located 55. 5 km. (34. 5 miles) south-southeast from the centre of Paris. In many countries Kilometre Zero (also written km 0) or similar terms in other languages is a particular location (often in the nation's capital city from which distances Fontainebleau is a sous-préfecture of the Seine-et-Marne département, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Fontainebleau. Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. Seine-et-Marne is a French department, named after the Seine and Marne rivers and located in the Île-de-France region In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division The arrondissement of Fontainebleau is an arrondissement of France located in the Seine-et-Marne département, in the Île-de-France The commune has the largest land area in the Île-de-France region, and is the only one larger than Paris itself. Île-de-France ( pronounced /il d̪ə fʁɑ̃s/ literally "Island of France" is one of the twenty-six administrative regions of France.
Fontainebleau, together with the neighboring commune of Avon and three other smaller communes, form an urban area of 36,713 inhabitants (1999 census). Avon is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. This urban area is a satellite city of Paris.
Fontainebleau is renowned for its large and scenic Forest of Fontainebleau, a favorite weekend getaway for Parisians, as well as for the historical Château de Fontainebleau of the kings of France, INSEAD, one of the world's most elite business schools, and École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Informatique et GÉnie des TELécommunications (ESIGETEL) a French Engineering Grande École. The forest of Fontainebleau is an important forestland of France, lying 60 km southeast of Paris. The Palace of Fontainebleau, located 345 miles from the centre of Paris, is one of the largest French royal Châteaux The palace as it is today is the work of many List of Queens and Empresses of France Wikipedia_talkFeatured_lists#Proposed_change_to_all_featured_lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below INSEAD is an international graduate Business school and research institution with campuses in France and in Singapore. ESIGETEL ( École supérieure d'ingénieurs en informatique et génie des télécommunications) was founded in 1986 by the Melun Chamber of Commerce. ESIGETEL ( École supérieure d'ingénieurs en informatique et génie des télécommunications) was founded in 1986 by the Melun Chamber of Commerce. The Grandes écoles ("Graduate schools" literally in French "Grand Schools" or "Elite Schools" of France are higher
Inhabitants of Fontainebleau are called Bellifontains.
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History
The preliminary of Fontainebleau, before the Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the Seven Years' War. The Treaty of Paris, often called the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of 1763, was signed on February 10, 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain Year 1763 ( MDCCLXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a
The Edict of Fontainebleau was signed here in October 1685, revoking the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Fontainebleau (October 1685 was an Edict issued by Louis XIV of France, also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes of The Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598 by Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinist Protestants of
During the French Revolution, Fontainebleau was temporarily renamed Fontaine-la-Montagne, meaning "Fountain by the Mountain" (the mountain referred to is the series of rocky formations located in the Forest of Fontainebleau). The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an
During the 1950s and early 1960s, Fontainebleau was home to the HQ Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT) and H. Q. Allied Air Forces Central Europe (AAFCE) (AIRCENT) located at Camp Guynemer before AFCENT was moved to Brunssum in the Netherlands and AIRCENT was moved to Ramstein AFB, in W. Brunssum ( is a Municipality and a Town in the southeastern Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Germany, after President de Gaulle decided that he no longer needed NATO-controlled atomic weapons on French soil as France had now established its own nuclear arsenal under its direct control. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( ( 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French General and statesman who led the Free French
Tourism
Fontainebleau is a popular tourist destination; each year, 300,000 people visit the palace and about 11 million people visit the forest.
Fontainebleau forest
The forest of Fontainebleau surrounds the city and dozens of villages. It is protected by France's Office National des Forêts and is recognised as a national park that is managed partly to conserve its wild plants and trees (such as the Service Tree of Fontainebleau) and its valuable population of birds, mammals and butterflies. Sorbus latifolia ( Service Tree of Fontainebleau; French Alisier de Fontainebleau) is a species of Whitebeam endemic to the area It is a former royal hunting park often visited by walkers and horse riders. Walking (also called ambulation) is the main form of Animal Locomotion on land, distinguished from Running and crawling For the Roman class see Equestrian (Roman Equestrianism refers to the skill of riding or driving Horses This broad description The forest is also well regarded for bouldering and is particularly popular among climbers. Bouldering is a style of Rock climbing undertaken without a rope and normally limited to very short climbs so that a fall will not result in serious injury UserStan Shebs for a timetable --> Climbing is the activity of using one's hands and feet (or
Royal Château de Fontainebleau
The Royal Château de Fontainebleau is a large castle where the Renaissance was introduced to France from 1528 onwards. The Palace of Fontainebleau, located 345 miles from the centre of Paris, is one of the largest French royal Châteaux The palace as it is today is the work of many
Other notable places
- The European (and historical) campus of INSEAD business school and research laboratories from the École des Mines de Paris are located in Fontainebleau. INSEAD is an international graduate Business school and research institution with campuses in France and in Singapore. A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration The École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (also known as Mines ParisTech, École des Mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines Paris or simply
- The graves of G. I. Gurdjieff and Katherine Mansfield can be found in the cemetery at Avon. George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Գեորգի Գյուրջիև Γιώργος Γεωργιάδης Георгий Иванович Гюрджиев (or Gurdjiev) January Kathleen Mansfield Murry ( 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the
Transport
Fontainebleau is served by two stations on the Transilien Paris – Lyon suburban rail line: Fontainebleau – Avon and Thomery. Transilien Paris &ndash Lyon is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network Fontainebleau – Avon station, the closest station to the town center of Fontainebleau, is located at the border between the commune of Fontainebleau and the commune of Avon, on the Avon side of the border. Avon is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Famous Residents
- Aga Khan IV
- Anna Elizabeth Klumpke - 19th/20th century artist
- The Prince and The Princess of Hanover
- Rosa Bonheur - 19th century artist
Image Gallery
 Hunting Fountain |
 Bell Tower |
 The Trinity Chapel at Fontainebleau |
See also
- Château de Fontainebleau
- Edict of Fontainebleau (October 1685)
- List of climbing areas
- Milly-la-Forêt
- Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762)
- Fontainebleau High School
External links
- Castle of Fontainebleau (in English)
- 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (English)
- French Ministry of Culture list for Fontainebleau (French)
- Map of Fontainebleau on Michelin (English)
- Reaching Fontainebleau by Train
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